<p>The message in this book is that stress can be extremely harmful to your health. Yet not all stress is bad for you. Mind Shift will show you how to change your perception of stress triggers, and how to cope better with negative stress. By applying the techniques in this book you can learn to become the master instead of the victim of stress. With knowledge, training, practice and experience you can succeed and live a healthier life. It's your choice. Stress has been termed the 'millennium malady' and is an aspect of modern life that is unavoidable.<br /><br /><br />In Mind Shift, Professor Schlebusch makes accessible to both the general reader and health-care professional important insights into the nature of stress, its impact on the health of individuals, as well as practical guidelines to its management. 'Mind Shift covers in a comprehensive manner the basic understanding of the nature of stress, its signs, sources and management.<br /><br /><br />The author helps readers to understand what stress is, how and why it occurs and what they can do to help themselves. It offers appropriate and effective solutions which are practical and easy to apply, and is an extremely valuable and user-friendly self-help book.' Professor Angelo, J Lasich Head, Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal<br /><br /><br />Professor Lourens Schlebusch is Head of the Department of Behavioural Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Faculty of Health Sciences in Durban, South Africa. He consults in stress management, suicidology, psycho-oncology and disability as well as in behavioural medicine with a specific emphasis on traumatic stress. He has made many significant research contributions to his field and has published widely.<br /><br />R120 per book.</p>